Bengt Novén
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Name and title: Bengt Novén
Workplace: Department of Romance Studies and Classics Länk till annan webbplats.
About me
I obtained a DEUG (two-year undergraduate degree) in Modern French Literature from Université Stendhal (Grenoble III) in 1985, a Master's degree from Uppsala University in 1988, a DEA (Diplôme d'études approfondies, postgraduate research degree) in Letters and Arts from Université de Provence in 1990, and a PhD in Romance Languages from Uppsala University in 1996.
I have previously served as Senior Lecturer in French at Uppsala University and Mälardalen University, and as Professor at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. From 2006 until my retirement in 2026, I held a permanent position as Professor of French at Stockholm University.
I served as Head of the Department of Language Education (2009–2011), Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (2012–2017), and Director of Accelerator, Stockholm University's art gallery (2018–2020).
I am the Swedish correspondent for the RHLF (Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France) and a member of the SHLF (Société d'Histoire Littéraire de la France).
My teaching has included courses in modern French literature at the undergraduate level, introductory French, oral communication, literary theory and methodology, Francophone literature from North Africa, French Nobel Prize laureates in Literature, and the supervision of undergraduate and master's theses in the field of Francophone literature.
My research has focused on North African Francophone literature, modern poetry, nineteenth-century literature, and early modern French literature.
My current research project examines visuality in early modern French literature from three disciplinary perspectives: optics, rhetoric, and the Reformation. It analyzes works by Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de Ronsard, Agrippa d'Aubigné, and François de Malherbe.
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